Writing Workshops
Landscape As Character
Craft with Mark Spragg
Sunday, June 8, 1-3pm
Characters become alive in the landscape in which we find them. Beyond setting, landscape can create a passage of time. The stillness of predawn, heat of midday, slanting evening light, the waxing or waning of the moon.
Descriptive choices of tempo, rhythm, and tone may mirror a character’s mood, or contrast starkly with their internal experience. The ground on which the characters walk can be symbolic of their journey; paved, overgrown, frost-stiffened, parched, or eroding. A character’s relationship with landscape can be defined by the sentences used: languid or abrupt, consonant- or vowel-driven.
The landscape itself becomes a character beyond metaphor or analogy, visceral, omnipresent and ever changing. Every decision creates a story-scape. Through example and discussion, we’ll explore some of these possibilities in workshop.
www.markspragg.com
Cost: $30/50/70, please pay what you can.
The Wild We Speak
Lyrical Essays From Our Shared Ground with CMarie Fuhrman
Saturday, September 13, 1-4pm
This three-hour generative workshop invites you into a focused examination of the lyrical nature essay, where the elements of the natural world become guides for crafting prose. We'll discover how your unique ways of seeing and knowing can give craft to your experiences within our shared environment.
www.cmariefuhrman.com
Cost: $40/60/80, please pay what you can.